The SPCA insists that this is all part of animal welfare, regrettable, but not unusual, and not its fault.

The majority of people won't buy that anymore. The SPCA won't give up its old ways but the public has moved ahead of it. That stubbornness or inability to understand the ethics of animal welfare is ultimately going to be disastrous for the BC SPCA.

Animal welfare saves - animal control kills. The killing of fifty-nine sick cats is animal control of the most basic, raw, brutal kind.

It amounts to a kind of pest control because the Kamloops SPCA takes in as many as twenty cats a day and it can hold over one hundred we are told. Whatever the figures, there are not that many people buying used cats. The unsold must be killed.

Why is the SPCA still taking cats in numbers that requires it to kill so many? The SPCA would say that it is inhumane to turn them away.

We would say that it is bad for business to turn away animals. That's not how you get donations. And if I were a cat, I would choose the streets over the SPCA. If you're a cat on the streets, there's a good chance that a real animal welfarist will find you and take care of you. Your chances of getting out of an SPCA cage alive are not nearly as good as your chances on the street.

We used to think that the Board of the BC SPCA would make its employees do real animal welfare once they figured out what that is. But with new members like Bonnie Bischoff being added to the Board, we no longer have any hope.